Celtic Gods: The Gaulish goddess, Dexsiua (Southwind)

Dexsiua
A Gaulish Goddess, also knwon as Dexiua: Southwind

Dexsiua (Dexiua) is a Gaulish goddess known from several inscriptions found in France. Almost nothing is known of this goddess, but she may have been the patronness of the warm southerly winds.



Synonyms: Dexiua
Cym, Irish: Southwind

Dexsiua is a goddess known from inscriptions at Le Castellar-de-Cadenet, Alpes de Haute-Provence, France (CIL XII 1062 to 1064, incusive and AE 1992,1170) and Pertuis, Vaucluse, France.

Though nothing is known of this goddess' function and attributes her name seems to derive directly from the proto-Celtic root dexs(i)wo- (right, south) and she may be a goddess of the the warm southerly winds.



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